Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art

News about Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Oct. 5, 2014

Art Dealer Jeffrey Deitch is back in New York after resigning as director of Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; plans to organize occasional shows in borrowed spaces rather than opening gallery of his own. MORE

Apr. 3, 2014

Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles holds its annual gala and welcomes its new director, Philippe Vergne. MORE

Jan. 18, 2014

Philippe Vergne, DIA Art Foundation director who has been appointed to lead Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, says his first priority in rebuilding museum is to hire a chief curator. MORE

Jan. 16, 2014

Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art has confirmed that Philippe Vergne, director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York, has been chosen as its new director. MORE

Jan. 7, 2014

Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, after three years of tumultous leadership, says it is nearing the end of a search for a new director; also announces it has raised its endowment to $100 million, fund-raising milestone that will ensure it does not have to merge with another institution or face dissolution. MORE

Nov. 26, 2013

“Pool Party,” a 23-minute web video from the installation artist Ed Fornieles, turns the conventions of reality TV inside out in highly entertaining ways. MORE

Aug. 20, 2013

Jeffrey Deitch, who resigned in July from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, consulted on a new exhibition at New York’s Leila Heller Gallery. MORE

Jul. 26, 2013

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, announces resignation of director Jeffrey Deitch, three years into his five-year contract; Deitch's tenure, which includes a few well-attended, critically praised exhibitions, has also been marked by staff defections, budget problems and accusations that he had neither ability nor desire to run a large public institution. MORE

Jul. 24, 2013

Former New York art dealer Jeffrey Deitch resigns after three tumultuous years as director of Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. MORE

Mar. 26, 2013

The museum says that is has been promised donations that will increase its endowment to more than $60 million. MORE

Mar. 23, 2013

Roberta Smith Critic's Notebook reflects on news that struggling Museum of Contemporary Art has rejected offer to merge with Los Angeles County Museum of Art; asserts that if MOCA is to remain independent, it will need to make some crucial, long-avoided decisions, including distancing itself from its ruling trustee Eli Broad. MORE

Mar. 20, 2013

Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles announces that it will remain independent after several weeks of exploring merger to shore up its weak financial status. MORE

Mar. 12, 2013

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is close to working out a five-year agreement with the National Gallery of Art in Washington to collaborate on programming, research and exhibitions. MORE

Mar. 9, 2013

Plan to combine Museum of Contemporary Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art has both wide support and powerful potential foe, philanthropist Eli Broad, who donated $16 million to bail out MOCA five years ago with provision that it not merge with any museum within 100 miles of its downtown flagship. MORE

Mar. 8, 2013

Los Angeles County Museum of Art is proposing merger with Museum of Contemporary Art in LA, which has been battered with defections of board members, criticism of its direction and precarious finances. MORE

Feb. 28, 2013

Nontraditional beauty of Liza Thorn, rocker in up-and-coming band Starred, has captured fashion world's attention; fashion photographer Hedi Slimane has featured her in his portrait show at Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. MORE

Oct. 21, 2012

Many people in Los Angeles still find Jeffrey Deitch, transplanted New York art-world stalwart who is currently the beleaguered director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, a mystery. MORE

Jul. 23, 2012

Roberta Smith maintains that Jeffrey Deitch, controversial director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, is not the sole cause of the museum's many troubles. MORE

Jul. 14, 2012

Artist John Baldessari announces he is leaving the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles two weeks after chief curator Paul Schimmel resigns; departure is latest sign of growing internal differences over that institution’s shift to a more pop-culture-oriented mission led by the museum's director, Jeffrey Deitch. MORE

Nov. 20, 2011

Marina Abramovic, performance artist whose provocative works have made her a darling of the fashion, society and art worlds, designs gala benefit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles that features live human table centerpieces. MORE

Nov. 10, 2011

Hedi Slimane is a former fashion designer who has since reinvented himself as a photographer exploring up-and-coming artists with a darker side; he is currently releasing book of his portraits entitled Anthology of a Decade: 2000-2010 and is unveiling an exhibit of his latest works at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Pacific Design Center. MORE

Oct. 9, 2011

Chicago artist Theaster Gates, whose wooden sculptural objects are on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, describes his love of old wooden ladders. MORE